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ed ? What commerce would that conlirry expeet, if Spain, -ailing herself of her natural rebotirces, should attend to her own navigation ? " We, cannot` expetit now the moderation exer cised by Louis XIV. in the, ftilhlment of the early proett entertained by France. That• Sovereign; it is true, endeavoured to putt to sleep our energy, in order to enhance the -indu , try and.commerce of. his own uation; but be_did not attack the _first elements of our existence ; he did 'not apply the axe to the root of the tree.; he respected our ancient.-lawslL- he. cultivated the pious maxims of our religion ; he de- fended the intregrity of the Spanish territory. Not 40 the reigning power in France jn pnr.tlay ; with.an iiopious and cruel-hand he endea%Tours, to hurl to the earth the Spanish Monarchy, in the hope that. it will never'be restored; be surrenders to the flames, the religion, the laws, and the venerable customs of this atipst nation, always 'feared, and alw:iys. ,en-, vied by. France. He again employs 07„,thcie artifices by WI i , -11 li'is too succe , stully seduced the inha tg; bit.auts of France : he declared, :that- our Constith tion was too old , and .infirm to last•lOng ; •that the sciences and arts, which he lovedand admired, were b.misliedfrom . our 'country ; and.by such tricks and • he endeayodre•d to,loll Spaniards into blind obeirience, :as he had before practised with the Ita ltaii-kand French. At One time some weak Spaniards listened to his fallacies, who in 'French books had: drank,of the poison.of revolution and atheism—who from the influence, of the bad education of a Court, and'of its' hOmble foll Overs, indulge in the t oo li s h almitation of the sayingi distributed in' short corn pendiumsor diffuse dtctionaries. But the enlighten- . ed part orthe nfitVon, who, notwithstanding the so pe:intencience of the aloft' ignorant and immoral st•citesown, retain their-natiN.estrength and judgment, did not.listen to, the-promises of the seducer, and cubic; not _suppress their indignation •vt the prostitu tion ,of the Madrid Journal, ; filled wjtlt the procla mationS of MURAT, which were no sooner.publishr., .How ,can all these, expedients be successfully employed upon a nation which, since the:Apr(4oon of Fran:cc, has been accustomed to obsehe the changes diat , nation has undergone— which_ has witnessed` the retrogradation of the arts and scis.niceS, the declension ,of her, manufactories, tire ruin of her "commerce, the det' - ast'atiOn of her pronces, .the 'contributions exuacd !rpm ,the..per 7 5 , )17,,i and property of her inhahitants;":4l)'d the aespo- • of her Government, whichek , generated . frOur a d,emooracy to a military tyril' ean stch'ipeoPle dare to denoiniii.ito a dedining nation a .country where-such custorns,.,Eueli opt pions, and . such resources prevail fs - the,roild yoke. of the Gospel severe ? Is the litnittd monarchy of Spai tO be regarded as despotism ? Are `we destii.ute to 'of the fair philosophy of •seionce, because we do not • blot our paper with theimptnities, the, .fi - ivolities, the atrocities which dis,.. , aie : , : the -Parisian PiesS ? The Spaniards are the same people who ap , plied to . the'study of the sciences in the ti me of, the .gingusti; the Claudii, the Trajans, the Ferdinands, the- Charles's, and the Phillips. lint thus much cthinot"be said of the French. , The)" are not the saw: to-day that they were yesterday, with the sin gle exception of their garrulity: Frenomen under tne . dominion of the Bourbons were opP" and ge -11 nerous; under the inthority . of 8u0,,,, t :. , ARTE they are, close and mercenary. But 'let :French: en , with- Cut our 'interfence, possess theirown m ode fovillent, their dwn empire, their own ,~reii ion, their own arts, and their own literature..`• cannot envy them ; 'but in the opposition to their riptloris of happiness; we place our' own felicity." MANIFESTO OF THE SUPREME JUNT. MURCIA. [FRom Taal CORfINNA GiZETTE.J. " Provinces and Cities of Spain ! Our sentiti nt3 are uniform, and our Will been marvell'ar.als : d unequivocally expressed. We are lia4tening defence of our . country, and, the pres'ervaTion of thfi, ausu6t titles Of our amiable and ench:ard FErtnt- NAND the Seventh. Let us beware of clisorgani4a, tt , n; were any disunion to steal among Its': Se.there ..„ iiß.voice..heard in the Peninsul a , Lint wl2,ai - eklies t 4 - - union, confraternity, and minnal defence. Let us • be meat, and despise. the frivolities of precedence. Let us a solid central Government, to which "Gil the Provinces and Kingdoms may hay..s, recourse by rneans' of Representatives, and froth „whom order's ;end institutions may emanate under :ti, e' name of tE.C.DINAND tie Seventh. e• The general Cortez held in the year 174, have sworn by Prince of Asturias as Heir of the Crown', the dignified, a&ual monarch. The Deputies of the Cortez, and*Ling Charles the Fourth, have sworn on'the o.Ospet mutually to preserve q - le, laws: sttutei, CrstOnis, and usages. The GrandeS and the . Nobles have rendered theifsolemn mice, according to the use and pra6tiCe of Spain. By this mu ual bond; neithell can the stibjeels castoff" their obedience pledged, nor. the King contravene the soleinn promise to" uphold the laws; - Statutes, custom;, and institutions of the'natirin.. 7 • L• Tho , prineipal, and perhaps the most. essential, is the'sticces§ion in the kingdom, established in our great code, entitled, .ck la 'Partitlow, by the laWs of which the ir,eces:;ion has from the r.tmotest anti quity been fixed. This nation has not'. chosen to iet'erse' or alter this' method; and thus,' I'vben oar Loud Philip the Fifth meditated the suly,'ersion of , it, infendiho : ' to intrOduce the Bzlic law of France,: by winch fernales:are excluded, and iris solicitude re. • giving ill the said Cortez; it was by . an uhahirnity of, dotes declarecl, that his I.‘lajesfy could- , not alter. the bider of 'sUcces , ,ion in Spiiin, the - obscriiaitt o q , • which ~ Tia sworn to maintain, cnctcckiiA4--piently,. the 'Princess charlOtterof Bya zit was toile> ic the CIQW , II,- linkfablt of her rhale'64h -, ..-„ Underthii faa, by Which . tho I, 2vf! . . pl ec ig(M lll3i, tclelity; and the Scverc - :gn.- tilt; citheir oath., it i Glanifst to 'the t hat the renunciations and abdications 61 the Crown, by ouMords•Charies IV. and Ferdinand VII. k be half of the Emperor of' ihe 'French, have been posi tively and -notoriously null, as made in favour of an individual, a stranger - to the family pointed out in the said Cortez, conformably to . the laws, statutes, cu~f_ - iind'usages - -of Spain, and in defiance to 'the solemn and reciprocal oath verified between the. Xing and his Snbjeds in the . Cortez 'solemnly as sembled : to this nullity, which exempts us from all 'obligation of acknowledging as Sovereign 'the Einperor Of 'the French, accedes the - ..ant ot liber ty under which they have been made, and•the pre set ice of the same with a powerful army on the spot, where the renunciation took place, and w hither the legitimate Sovereign Prince has been -insidiously 'and' treacherously conducted. " King Francis the Fit-St evaded fulfilling the treaty made by him with'the Emperor Cliarles the Fifth, under which he had .been releaSed at Ma drid,' on pretence of having made,' it in captivity. Let the nations compare, and 'see whether there can be any 'parallel. Francis the First ' was made pri soner in the famous battle of Pavia, in an open and jU ) St 'War Ferdinand the Seventh was seized at ..liayonne, _under . the idea of embracing an intimate ally who invited him to consolidate .and draw closer the bonds of 'peace and union, to acsmecit the glory of/both riatietis. ' . MAILS. - AItRIVED-1 Dublin. DuE—z Gottenburgli, t Dublin, - z Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS D;tli 'AT TWELV E O'CLOCK, Consols - - - -66 i d I Omnitun - dis, pr. THE SU N. SOL/Ibl QUISDICL , RR lALSOM AUDZAT ? LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1805. No intelligence whatever from Spain had reached town when this Paper, was put to Press ; but as the wind has been for some time .southerly, an ar rival) from Spain Po - al inity be - hourly expeEted. Pori - to - al - , NYt authorized to state that there is no fountia-: tiun whatever for a .report alluded. to in a Morning Paper of yesterday,.staiing that " Tike CEIANCEIrLOR • of the EY.CIIESWER had sent to the Bank' to Con-' . . " SOIL concerning a not , Loan to. , be' raised imine .diately on the Meetingof radium:kit in Novem-• ". -ber, and had at the same time intimated that five millions would be wanted for Austria." P.IoNAFAIrrk: is extremely anxious, and certainly not without very good reason, to keep his own sub,. " The*cession and reininciation of a place, and. even of a province, may be tolerated, if it prove the . - means of terminating a bloody and cruel war ;. but the. unheard-of .arid astonishing renunciation of a. great Monarchy in, the midst of peace, without fur-• tiler notification to the nation or assent on the part• of the. States of the kingdom*, than the annunnit:k tion of its having 'been derived from the mouth of a captive Monarch, or perhaps..,alledged only in. print, without. ever. having been really effed ed, is so violent and extraordinary a resnit, .thatno precedent of it will hefoend among the rolabers , of kingdoms in the annals of the World. • - ‘-.‘- The French Papers haVe censured the condua of England, when they seized our Frigates, and the Royal Navy . o Deßrnark! What have they to. say now on the attempt of disposing of the whole..Spa nishMena:chy, under the confidence of amity and alliance !, . Charles the Great, at the head powei ful and ruling vast previnces, attempted to validate certain titles on this nation ; but Alpheus°, the Cnaste.,taught pica, in Roncesvalles,tbat Sove-. reign; even of petty Kingdoms, such as Leon, can over_uoteb• the insolently proud. He that,haS jus,;, tlce on his side is under the proteetion of God.;. and if. Cod be with us, vain is the watch of 'thos;, that s ek to ensnare and persecute us. its of vote in the Cortez ! Let us (mite and form pne body; let us appoint a Council, Which, jn ;Le name 'of Ferdinand the Seventh may organize the civil dispositions, and 'let us avoid the arils - with which disunion would threaten us: . The.por-,. teuteus notion that . in each Capital the Junta of Go.: t- anent should suppose itself supreme, without relative stiburdination, would draw :anarchy, desela- . and ruin down upon us ; , united, we shall be invincible; disunited, the common enemy will find his gratification in our destrilaion. Woe to Spain if that should happen ! Ferdinand the Seventh or damns; the .Cortez. Lave recognised him • as, heredi. tart' Prince--the Country has proclaimed him as Monarch ; Seville, Grenada; Valencia, Saragossd, . noble Cities, vouchsafe to take'the -lead,' unite and embiace thiS resolution, 'point out and circulate the nomination of the place.aud day, for the re-union of the Representatives of the people, occupy by provi sion the faculties of the',distingUished, Cities. of Bur- ges and Toledo, at present disabled from raising their . voices. , Captains• General, 'distinguished Commanders, -protest this preservative of the nation ; worthy He -roes form the Council; from which the orders may ema •Late, whiCh those that conduct the armies shall have to execute; and by a knowledgeof the state and po- sition of all the forces of the nation, and of the Movements of the enerny, - you'will_know how to save the Country, Our City flatters, itself that this-remedy will be found decisive. A central Government, a Supreme Government are . indispensible. Ferdinand the Seventh ordains it; Ferdinand the Seventh .cannOt be restored to his Throne without such tiniorf of power's : When all the Provinces are uhited by their, Representatives, there is an .end to all jealousies .of gupe'riority, and the dangetotis arms of diviicin And intrigue are cut off to the enemy-; .the Foreign:Pow+ ers will knoW - With wlitiineo treat both in Nam and war; and an universal.Governmentbeing establish ed in Spain, the Monarchy will be preserved. invio- I late for its legitimate and beloved Sovereign., " This city awaits your apsker for its,sat4faCtion . and information: • " .4ittreta, the 2 °d June, 80.' s (Signed) cLEmENTE DE CAMPOS: " VAN,CENT44IZETA r " • jasSrlr, Bisttor 'OF CAR. CouuTliscA.mrokip.rstet.so. THAGRNA. ANTONIO FONTE S ARAIt. COUNT•FLORIDA BLANcA. , Ms . sduis JOA Q UIM .D. 13 FLGUERgA, ANTONIO .FRRNANDEZ nE JULIAN' JOSEVII Ds keT.l—i SANTO DOMINGO; • VISCOUNT DE Hu- - -E.V.TA„ M, , ftIARQUI4 DE ESPIN AR. LOUIS SAi:TIACO . 1)0 i AGUIL AR. FitiVIJCISCO LOPEZ Di - t - THE ARcILDEACoN OF VIL- GIJ I AR. • . LtriA." - LOSEPH FIZNARILJO;. ky Order of the junta; tiI.NTONIO JOS EV DE CALAHORRA, or to perish in unprovoked and' unprincipled aggres sions on countries with who.n it, was at once tl.elr e wish and their interest to live in peace and amity. All this and More Spain beheld with a patience that,. to those who were not acquainted with the feel -1•1gs of this gallant nation, had every appearance of 4 atiitgy ; nor was it until she found herself on the utmost verge of destrudion, that a few . of her most iespeded and respedable Nobles and Ecclesiastic; assembled, without tumult or parade, and prevailed. 4epOn the King to retire front that station for which ' his infirmity had long unfitted him, and resign the throne to the legal heir, their. present, be' loved Monarch FERpi , NAND VII. • , 1 I France, with no pressure from without, no ' per tiAicius favourite deVouring her vitals, no rapacious itrid 'Sanguinary tyrant sacrificing her treasures and heehlooelt to his insatiable thirst 'of empire, but. I- L 4 yttl' " an amiable and virtuous Monarch, a consti tution 'gradually aMeliorating itself, and weaitli re- ; pidly increasing with security, assembles a .tu-; . . maltueus horde to_provide for a mall deficit in the revenue, who 'commence their operations by throw ieg the kingdom into confusion, calling every bad passion into'adion, and . substituting a succession of, loss' , and despicable demagogues in the - place - of that ' . „ . whom they m e t ' to suppo - rt, an d . whon i seas and those of his vassal ! States, in completed;- Monarch nerthey speedily murdered, w ith ' ev e ry c i rcumstance o f anceof the ' 'important, events which have re- . , centl injustice, cruelty, and feroci ous exuhationGentlyoccurred in Spe t in. He has not informed the •, .. -. . ..„ •,. : .- .- ' ' • '• -• Thu.s wide asunder at the - cammencernent, do the. people of France, that the Bad s o f S pa i n h av e a t = t wo countries exhibit . any simila r ity o f con d u at ifs . • tacked his Fleet in the h ar bo ur . o f Cadiz; and - • compelled it to surrender 3 and we h av e very • • .ry little the progress' of their struggles ?--The Jacobins of Nation t his (the only one, eblush to say, ,here doubt that he. will preserve an equal sil euce a s to w w _ they have yet the IrardihoOd to avow the cant of thq the glorious result of Gen:DuroN'T's Campaign in - •.. . .- . • e gart)) - must•possess-more than an ordinary degrep.Of 4ndalusia, The increased rigour' with whiCh the :' regulations to prevent any intercourse with' this ingenuity to con v i nce us that the present g l or i o us' .- • sl .. .• . strekggle in Spain i 5..." the .war o f th e ,P eo nl e - a ga i nSt Country have recently b ee n - 'canted inie effeCt in the . - • '. . -.flesh - , rulers, and the counterpart of the`Revolution in:Ports of France and Holland, proceed s , we have no '>•. • :: ...-• .•'' -•-• .. • , :,- .• , _,,,,,. . : . • doubt, in as great a degree from his wish to prevents s• I • , . • . -1 he Spaniards, we will *not Insult them With tlO, the importation of intelligence, as of goadssfrorn this i : name-of paf riots, which,' we know,- they iejed Witt: Country. 4. few 0,4 s ago a Ostriel sailed from Ply, . - . . . . . _. . - ... • • e • . i eflable'seorn—which in Prance was the watch: mouth for Alorlaix. ' The Cartel was hailed tronatthk : . , ord of`-rebellion and murder, and . in this Country outer battery, and told that if she did not imunisliateljte O t is adopted and abused by the disseminators of turhu e `' tick and stand out to sea, they would. be fired upon. : • -• : ' , lenceand disloyalty—the Spaniards, we say, though The-Captain was prevailed upon by his passengers _, 1 . - , _e.plunilered and 'oppressed by BUONAPARTE, were yq to make a second eflint ; when the - BatterieS open... ! . . . ~, .. _‘. sreposmg in the hope of seeing a part, at least o ed upon hits, and he was compelled •to give . - - s their grieyances removed by their lawful Sovereign; , up tile attempt. Two of the'PassengerS, hoWever, ; . s fretu the British Go verm t en t, ' who had passports when they learned tha t he . had b een basely d 'rd e . ort •' ecoee , • to Bayonne, made a cl o se p r i soner, and, U nder the prevailed upon the Captain to let th em h ave t h e boat . - .-: . of the Cart e l, with which they made a third at- terror of immediate s t ee l or po i son ; compelled by ..th , ...... • - e e .Tyrant to renounce hi s inalienable rights., and tempt. The boat was fired ep . on; hilt - What be- " - • • lay the honour and the throne of Spain at the' feet came of the- pas..eegers., the Captain of the Cartel -. ' 4 ..,- ... ' of a low-born, uneducated, broken -attorney, with., . - does not -knoW, 4s he lost Sight- ot their' as soon as , they got into the harbo ur . gut. talents or worth of- any,kinde.htid•elee osstre par pet of a captieious but fortunate madman. - Of .- all the charadertstics of Jacobinis.m,noae is :. ' isiut9n sufferance -could endtare • tio mote. - . Tll9 s, • t. More remarkable than that insidious activity which brave CASWANOS assembled * the Nobility and Clergy seizes upon every event and attempts to convert it of Seville, in a mode perfeetly legal, and sanA, if s eci by, long-established c ustom , an d i ssu e d those liesp to the honour or in t ere S t .of its votaries.- It was \ , `therefore with much lesS surprise than indignation and- ctighi4ect , '!ppe44 4 '4' the loyalty of the people, , whisk called them forth as oneman in the. detgec s e ) that We witnessed the efforts of some of our poli the noble struggle of , of their : . King, and struck with thunder the treae .Beal Writers to assimilate , el - serous and sanguinary invad ers o f their iinlepen4 under. the protection, of " . her M .consituti ona l onarCh, , Spain i in the maintainaece of her religi on an d lases r - encaed their'honour. ..., .. • , -. . ' t \ • ' to =thsedeanocratic exettions of France, stimulated t.- il this was done with order and solemnity; reii-' by-.the meanest and most execrable set of villaina . : giinesaelked hand in hand with the rove of country, that ever ; ,disgraced humanity, to, overthr4 - 1-1 -..santi s excluded every selfish „passion' fronr the bosons ' ' - • . -. ~114•61 the heso; •Sa '• e p mard. . No howlingsi cf a la, 'land wholesome restraint, and establish the despotism . ~'the heroic ' , . . of atheisin and anarchy on t h e . ru i ns o f her legal . •terne, breke.shb midnight 'rest of the -peacea.hle inha•• throne and thsiat(;lli ' b sl' . ofof b erect a , tes millions her-. 1 no ~-, bitants.e- ambuhitory guillotine marked . its track: , worthiestinhabit ants . . - ....1 -3 ilsh oe h th gh the .streets witmocent. blood i ',no slaves . 1 , .•. - '- ' , - `ll . n the gallies, no robbers andenstircierers front' This obliquity of intellect mu s t b e cons id ere d as -1,-s-T• . . • • . • • . ce received public prisons, surr oun d e d t h e h all of t he JutitS, into a disease. Th e p o i son o f Jacobinism, on : - the Constitution, like th a t o ff - a ma d .dog, c.:n • • t naiked in their debates, and annu ll e d an d overaw ed 1 , . thelir=decrces at will ! No; the nation awaited, with never be Completely. eradicated. It may be dormant : • 1 - . . . • a confidence which exper i ence had justified, the for a time, and deceive the unwary; ' but it is sure to - - , burst forth result of .councils adopted• in sectecY an d s il en ce 'at' last with a. violen ce proportioned to • . State, and mani . • • , .by the natural guardians, of the as length of concealment, and to fling about i ts . • tested their sense of d uty b y the ardour and.ala pernicious foain with a convulsive energ y th at, to :- - . • , . .erity with *hid ) • th e y executedall then' ordem— i those within it s s ph e r e , must be - truly terrible. Nor was this : alacrity p urc h ase d , as-in France, by • That there is' not the slighte s t resemblance ll , a,e concessions to th e f ury o f the ra b nier tiq- - ==-The the circumst ances o f th e , two C ountr i es, our Read,. -• • ' - march of -the armed inhabitants was not.delayed, as ers need not our assistance .to discover : but, as '.. • ' ~. . in the great cities of France, that they might glut , the emissaries of a dis , vraced party, the fa6tions dis- • - c, themselves at leisure with th e bl oo d of women and ii . seminators• of ' discontent, the p er iodi ca l propaocra- priests, and commute assassination for plund e r. On tors of libellous falsehoods, have, .in honour, of, .. Jaeobinism, . asserted the contrary ; we .shall Spa* . - en- niard inculcated on hi s • followers, .was obedience, deavour, by briefly contrasting what Spain i 3 now doing with what Fran ce o nce did to check 'di .." Yod have appoi n t e d me 'youi Gener a l," sa id t he . p - ,:--, - : • - gillanT - MpitLA to the people ef Cadiz, " I knoll/ . . triumph of malevolence, and Shame 'if not silence A:: • - howl - to,tesign the honour ;- but if 'retain - it, I must the clamours of those who ignorantly, or .rather -. .!,.‘: ; — I . , . .. - • , „and WilLbe:Absolute. It is mine to command ;'it 13 ... t. . wilfully, confound , loyalty with .sedition, , arid a.• • - , • • . - -, - ..7-1-itiues'io obey." And such is the language held, by love of order with a spirit of innovation and.'.(l6r.,. . •-, • • - •• - . • • - --- .:,4 6 fcry Officer whom the exigencies, of Spain havq . .. ' . . . atruaion, called forth to maintain the b9pqnr of, their..kinp.,- , . . , . ... Spam has neither sought nor u nd ergone a revo- and the independence of theirountry. !titian of any kind.... _She saw hcrsell under the ~ This.triumph of 'loyalty is baneful to the -feeling' . . .. nominal sway of a Monarch whom it bad pleased i '- -l etilose who exulted in the execrable revolutions _of .vt- 71,.,4 . Heaven to visit with deterioratiOn of his' mentaP I.Frarkerb,-...i; M.bility proscribed, a, King murdered; - .faculties, but' under the real controul of -an un-! a:•CoilLi rY'Covered with sm o ki ng ru i ns , or: d e l ug ed . .„...., _Worthy .favourite, who, t o s ecure hi s ill-got poutr, , , .ao-,I . . ti sow,: by a disorganised and :frantic' rabble' , / , ~ -saeritleed her i n t erests an d h er safety -to. the , ,he most a(ed.. by comedians hissed from the .. stat! . -,e,'6Y 11t ..... ~. . . . ungrateful o f Tyrants, 'involved her in a ruinous torniei spurned: limn the bar,, by atheist's' % Ornito d war without, motive' or 'end; and Omitted her - r,ive defe n d erz t o be dragged from' their' iiotnes fr . = the 'church ;.. F ranc e, ,i n s h ort; l- O rios. . so strii in,g A . cOUtrast with Spain, armed, yet'subinissive,